The Swan Inn
THE SWAN INN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253650
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN INN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253650
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Swan Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SWAN INN, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE SWAN INN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Needham Market
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 08976 54790
Details
NEEDHAM MARKET HIGH STREET (WEST) TM 0854
3/71 The Swan Inn (formerly listed as No.9 (Swan 9.12.55 Hotel)) II
Public house, late C16 with alterations of 1850 (date on building). A 3-cell building with cross-passage entrance. 2 storeys. Timber-framed and plastered, the two end cells were jettied towards the High Street until C19 when the front walls were underbuilt in gault brick (now painted) up to 1st floor level, and the left-hand gable was also encased. Plaintiled roofs; the end cells have large gablets designed to appear as cross-wings; they have bargeboards pierced with linked circles and with spike finials. A central gabled dormer of similar design also bears the date 1850. Axial and end chimneys of gault brick. Small-pane sashes of c.1850; at ground storey is a central paired sash and at each end a splayed flat-roofed bay. C19 entrance door of 3 panels, the upper pair are glazed with an etched design which includes a Swan motif; a pair of pilasters and simple pediment. In the hall are roll-moulded floor joists and a matching binding-joist, all reused from an earlier C16 building. In the formerly jettied front wall is a carved pilaster with the knee above, now exposed within the bar. Other late C16 framing is plain, but the attic floor members have composite ovolo-moulding. Clasped purlin roof. The will of Sir Francis Needham (d.1632) mentions the Inn under its previous name of The King's Head.
Listing NGR: TM0897654790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436900
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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